Petr Beckmann

Petr Beckmann was born in 1924 in Prague (then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). He escaped with his family in 1939 to England and in 1942 Beckmann joined the Czechoslovak Air Force in the RAF. After World War II he returned to Czechoslovakia where he received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1949, a Ph.D. in 1955, and a D.Sc. from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1962.[citation needed]

In 1963 he was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Colorado. Beckmann decided to stay there and he became a Professor of electrical engineering at that university which he remained until his retirement in 1981.[citation needed] In 1967 he founded Golem Press which also published some of his books.[citation needed] Beckmann even had his own magazine Access to Energy which has, after his death on August 3, 1993, been published by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM). Beckmann believed that he had debunked Albert Einstein's theory of relativity with his "Galilean electrodynamics."[citation needed]

Petr Beckmann Award

The 'Petr Beckmann Award for courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom' is awarded at the annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) which is closely linked to OISM. The following people have received the Petr Beckmann Award: